Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do authorities make the little things in life so difficult ? |
| 2 | In the least ‘ radical ’ forms , the home authorities remain the main providers of services , but the purchasing of services from other health authorities is increased . |
| 3 | In the least ‘ radical ’ forms , the home authorities remain the main providers of services , but purchasing of services from other health authorities is increased . |
| 4 | Will employers prefer the new graduates to the A level employees , and , where will the graduates with their already developed learning skills obtain their building surveyor education ? |
| 5 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 6 | Then the pendulum swung too far in the other direction , towards an assertion that the Russians avoided the unpleasant aspects of colonialism as exemplified in Spanish , Portuguese or British experience . |
| 7 | He backed the plans to support the uneconomic farms and asked : ‘ Do we really need to compress the traditions and vitality of rural life and culture into the straitjacket of an industry like any other ? ’ |
| 8 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 9 | It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps , but it was worth the effort . |
| 10 | The transverse fibres or commissures unite the two ganglia of a pair . |
| 11 | The results reveal little departure from the traditional view that applicants from large , old-fashioned institutions make the best employees , although UMIST and Loughborough are ranked highly , largely because of their more vocational courses . |
| 12 | The main method of investigation will be a series of interviews with senior development control officers from one local authority planning department , in order to develop a prototype system using an expert system shell , followed by a wider interview survey involving several local authorities to corroborate the initial findings and further refine the system . |
| 13 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 14 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 15 | Band attempts to hit the high notes |
| 16 | In other featured games this week , the rejuvenated Phil Simms will be attempting to keep his throwing arm limber after last week 's 227 yard game against Chicago as the New York Giants host the dark horses Tampa Bay Buccaneers ; meanwhile the Green Bay Packers , fancied by many as Superbowl contenders , will be looking forward to clipping the wings of the Philadelphia Eagles before they have a chance to soar . |
| 17 | With a sigh she slid her hands beneath the front of his jacket and let her own fingers graze the hard stubs of his nipples . |
| 18 | This authority accounts using the following funds : |
| 19 | Hence Lapasset 's risible attempts to silence the English choirs . |
| 20 | Soon the behavioural change leads to new values and the new structures and policies to mirror the new values . |
| 21 | There have been many , sometimes conflicting , attempts to classify the main functions of language ( macro-functions ) . |
| 22 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 23 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 24 | Into these can be allocated enough satellites to transmit the 70 channels of TV that American firms say they want to broadcast . |
| 25 | It is expensive but has a host of fine illustrations to support the 500-word pen-portraits . |
| 26 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 27 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 28 | Chemical reactions involve the atomic elements , such as when carbon in coal and oxygen in the air are combined in fire to produce carbon dioxide and warmth . |
| 29 | Middle-class reformers and those with more radical opinions used the newest ideas to discredit the ‘ old-fashioned ’ science favoured by the traditional sources of power and influence . |
| 30 | The Union of Independent Kosovo Trade Unions called on all firms and institutions to reinstate the ethnic Albanians dismissed from their jobs after taking part in nationalist protests and the general strike of 1990 . |